Yukhary Gushchular (member: 11) (Cretaceous of Azerbaijan)

Where: Azerbaijan (46.8° N, 39.8° E: paleocoordinates 40.3° N, 44.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: 11 Member, Berriasian (145.0 - 139.8 Ma)

• member-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: marine; lithified, gray limestone and lithified, lenticular, tuffaceous gravel

• Limestone, light pinkish gray, gravely, thick-

•bedded to massive; the member lower part is exposed in

•a precipice (20–25 m) and the upper one in stepwise

•cliffs (about 30 m). Near the member base, there are

•sporadic lenses and interlayers of loose tuffaceous

•sandstone and gravelstone with clay admixture.

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: V. A. Zakharov and A. A. Kasumzade. 2005. On the boreal genus Buchia (Bivalvia) from the Tithonian of the lesser Caucasus. Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation 13(6):606-612 [M. Aberhan/D. Wellmanns]more details

Purpose of describing collection: biostratigraphic analysis

PaleoDB collection 130889: authorized by Martin Aberhan, entered by Daniel Wellmanns on 16.07.2012

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Taxonomic list

Cephalopoda
 Belemnitida - Belemnitidae
"Hibolites sp." = Belemnites (Hibolites)
"Hibolites sp." = Belemnites (Hibolites) Mayer-Eymar 1883 belemnite
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Lamellaptychus beyrichi ammonoid aptychus
Bivalvia
 Pectinida - Limidae
Ctenoides sp. Mörch 1853 file clam
 Ostreida - Ostreidae